I don't disagree that very numerical tasks like revenue forecasting are not a good fit for LLMs. But neither did a lot of data scientist concerns themselves with such things (compared to business analysts and the like). Software to achieve this has been commoditized.
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One of the points of the article is the importance of gathering data to support your conclusions.
Training data is real, and prompts are not. I don’t think this is an apples to apples comparison.
I don't disagree that very numerical tasks like revenue forecasting are not a good fit for LLMs. But neither did a lot of data scientist concerns themselves with such things (compared to business analysts and the like). Software to achieve this has been commoditized.